Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Someone the size of Novelist Henry James might have made something out of this tormented story; it is quite a tribute to the present, less talented company that they make it even bearable. Neither the stars nor Hoagy Carmichael nor Ethel Barrymore can make it better than that. However, either Mr. Andrews or his makeup man has managed an effective illusion of blind eyes. Also, it appears that those involved in this movie about music are at least musically housebroken...
...strength of Other Voices Other Rooms, Novelist Capote is safe from smothering in laurels. The book is a literary contrivance of unusual polish, better than the brightly ghostly short stories that gave its author a minor reputation. But it is immature and its theme is calculated to make the flesh crawl...
...novelist, Truman Capote, who was born in New Orleans, owes something to Proust, something to Faulkner. In some ways he gets very close to childhood and to the profoundly sensational values of a child. But for all his novel's gifted invention and imagery, the distasteful trappings of its homosexual theme overhang it like Spanish moss...
These are the knotted questions posed by F. L. Green, a gifted English novelist,* in the second of his nine novels to appear in this country. (Odd Man Out was the first.) A Flask for the Journey displays Green's novelistic technique to top advantage: his granite prose; his talent for evoking atmospheres of disturbed feeling, bloodshot with suspense and anxiety...
...confused with Graham Greene, a more gifted English novelist...